The New Life
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Synopsis
Triggered by Dante Alighieri’s "Vita Nova", albeit not an adaptation, The New Life shows how a man’s ideal world crumbles as he discovers that his life is nothing but a fantasy conjured by the darkest of beings. An atmospheric supernatural tale about demonic possession.
Honourable Mention (Fano Int'l Film Festival), Scream Queen Award (A Night Of Horror), Gold Remi (WorldFest Houston), Jury's Prize (Cryptshow Festival), Best Horror Short (Illinois Int'l Film Festival)
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Details
Language: English
Year of production: 2006
Length: 10 min
Country: Australia
Film Festivals:
Fano Int'l Film Festival, Fano (Italy) 2006-10 - Jury's Honourable Mention
Visionaria, Siena (Italy) 2006-10
Bradford Int'l Film Festival, Bradford (United Kingdom) 2007-03
A Night Of Horror Short Film Festival, Sydney (Australia) 2007-03 - Scream Queen Award
Uruguay Int'l Film Festival, Montevideo (Uruguay) 2007-03
Newtown Flicks Festival, Sydney (Australia) 2007-04
Weekend Of Fear, Erlangen (Germany) 2007-04
Worldfest, Houston (United States) 2007-04 - Gold Remi Award
Aarhus Festival Of Independent Arts, Aarhus (Denmark) 2007-04
Cellu l'art Jena Short Film Festival, Jena (Germany) 2007-04
Salento Fear Fest , Santa Maria di Leuca (Italy) 2007-05
Swansea Bay Film Festival, Swansea (United Kingdom) 2007-06
Fantastic Film Weekend, Bradford (United Kingdom) 2007-06
Irpen Film Festival, Irpen (Ukraine) 2007-06
Lowveld International Film Festival, Nelspruit (South Africa) 2007-06
Cryptshow Festival, Sant Adrià de Besòs (Spain) 2007-07 - Best Film Award
Weekend de la Peur, Montauroux (France) 2007-08
LA Shorts Fest, Los Angeles (USA) 2007-09
Illinois Int'l Film Festival, St. Charles (USA) 2007-09 - Best Horror Short
Great Lakes Film Festival, Pennsylvania (USA) 2007-09
Sitges Film Festival, Catalunya (Spain) 2007-10
Electric Shorts, Melbourne Fringe Festival (Australia) 2007-10
Rome International Short Film Fest, Rome (Italy) 2007-10
La Boca del Lobo Film Festival, Madrid (Spain) 2007-10
It Came From Lake Michigan! Milwaukee (USA) 2007-10
South African Horror Fest, Cape Town (South Africa) 2007-10
The Duke Mitchell Film Club, London (England) 2007-10
Torino Horror Film Festival, Turin (Italy) 2007-11
Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, Buenos Aires (Argentina) 2007-11
Filmstock Film Festival, Luton (United Kingdom) 2007-11
Show Me Shorts Film Festival, Auckland (New Zealand) 2007-11
International Short Film Festival, Santiago (Chile) 2007-11
Victoria Independent Short Film Festival, Melbourne (Australia) 2007-11
Fantasporto Film Festival, Oporto (Portugal) 2008-02
Sci-fi and Fantasy Short Film Festival, Athens (Greece) 2008-04
Int'l Fest of Cinema & Technology, Seattle (USA) 2008-07
Directors:
Producers:
Actors:
Kaja Trøa
Oliver Yacoubian
David Woodley
Gracie Otto
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Baxter Martin
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2008-02-08 23:47:13
The New Life
“The New Life” (2006, Australia, Daniel Giambruno)
A life built on guilt. This is the theme that can be gathered over repeated viewings of Daniel Giambruno’s 2006 “The New Life.” The story cries out to be elaborated and stretched into a longer film. And more film would be nice as the cinematography, the directing and the acting are all great to go. However, ten minutes abbreviates and crams this story down to size where we are left with the brutalizing speed with which this film turns an ideal life of one man upside down. Somewhere along the line, a man made a faustian deal, only to be called home by the Mephistopholes of the film. I’ll make my nod to Mr. Skin now. The film opens with a young boy throwing a ball for his dog along the evening shoreline. His beautiful blonde mom comes out of the beach house to remind him of dinner soon and goes back in where she brings her husband a glass of wine. From there on in, the crumbling begins. Two very contrasting images to open and close this picture.
There is a very steady rythtm to this film and a solid beginning, middle and end as far as storytelling goes. The visual effects of the demon come to gather up the man in the latter half of the film are interesting. It comes off somewhere between being animated and real. I definitely think this film and its makers are deserving of more time to grow a film around this story. The evidence is in the craft and this film is not only worth watching but watching again.